“Hoisted by their own GPTards.”
That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described[1] the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added[2], “this is embarrassing.”
The Decoder reports[3] that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdős problems” are famous conjectures[4] posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.)
However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website[5], said Weil’s post was “a dramatic misrepresentation”[6] — while these problems were indeed listed as “open” on Bloom’s website, he said that only means, “I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.”
In other words, it’s not accurate to claim GPT-5 was able to solve previously unsolved problems. Instead, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.”
Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher who’d also been touting GPT-5’s accomplishments, then acknowledged[7] that “only solutions in the literature were found,” but he suggested this remains a real accomplishment: “I know how hard it is to search the literature.”
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